Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville (560-4 April 636) was Archbishop of Seville, Spain from 13 March 600 to 4 April 636. He was considered to be the last scholar of the ancient world, and he became the patron saint of the Internet and students due to his reputation as a "living encyclopedia".

Biography
Isidore of Seville was born in Cartagena, Spain to a Roman family, and he was the younger brother of Leander of Seville and the older brother of Fulgentius of Cartagena and Saint Florentina. Isidore assisted his brother Leander in converted the Visigoths from Arianism to Catholicism, and, following his brother's death on 13 March 600, he succeeded Leander as Archbishop of Seville. Isidore was influential in the inner circle of the Visigothic king Sisebut, and the Visigothic legislation that resulted from the Councils of Toledo and Seville influenced the beginnings of representative government. His work Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia which assembled extracts of many classical books, made him a renowned academic, and he was a reputed "living encyclopedia". Isidore died in 636, and he became the patron saint of the Internet over a thousand-and-a-half years after his death.